this is something i saw on another forum
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Earlier this week I was watching "Access Hollywood" by chance, and Will Smith was on there to promote "Hitch". They asked him a few questions about his music and that new song he got called "Switch". He started talking about how alot of people are calling him a sellout and such...
He then started talking about how he heard people like The Game and G-Unit talking about he's a sellout, so he posed the questions, "Am I supposed to be cussing on every track? Or do I need gun shot wounds to give me street cred?" He then was saying things like "If I made albums about how many people I killed or how much coke I sold, knowing its a lie, would that make me more street credible?" Then he looks right at the camera, real serious like "or do I have to be as broke as you people calling me out to be as tough as you?"
Dude was even saying that young people forgot that he's a pioneer in the rap game and think that he still can't "shut people up" on a track.